Siamogale
Appearance
Siamogale Temporal range: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene,
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Siamogale meliltura skull | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Mustelidae |
Subfamily: | Lutrinae |
Genus: | †Siamogale Ginsburg, Ingavat & Tassy, 1983 |
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Siamogale is an extinct genus of giant otter from the late Miocene-early Pliocene of eastern Asia. Three species are currently known, S. thailandica and S. bounosa from Thailand and S. melilutra from China.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Xiaoming Wang; et al. (2018). "A new otter of giant size, Siamogale melilutra sp. nov. (Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora), from the latest Miocene Shuitangba site in north-eastern Yunnan, south-western China, and a total-evidence phylogeny of lutrines". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16: 39–65. Bibcode:2018JSPal..16...39W. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1267666.